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Re:The hierarchy of countries winning Nobels in the sciences... by teddyh on Saturday September 22, 2018 @01:51PM (#18047036)
How much of the work which made those people famous was actually made in the UK? If a UK citizen is working and/or living abroad, can the work they do really be “credited”, so to speak, to the UK?

Conversely, should not UK get the credit, if non-UK citizens have immigrated to the UK and do their work at UK institutions?

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Re:The hierarchy of countries winning Nobels in the sciences... by throwaway080383 on Saturday September 22, 2018 @02:08PM (#18047143)
Hawking spent his entire professional life in the UK. Wiles bounced around between Princeton, Paris, and Oxford, but he was educated up through his PhD in the UK.

From my perspective as an American in number theory, it seems there is no shortage of strong people coming from UK, Australia, Germany, France, India, and China, but there are many who come to the US and stay here. Anecdotally, it seems rare for a very strong person in the US to move elsewhere, unless it is back to their home country.

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